Revisiting Pāṇini's generative power

In this paper I revisit recent claims that Pāṇini’s generative grammar has fully context-sensitive power. I show that in fact Pāṇini assumed acyclicity as a constraint on rule application, limiting the power of his superficially context-sensitive formalism in a way entirely parallel to much work in...

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Huvudupphovsman: Lowe, JJ
Övriga upphovsmän: Sharma, G
Materialtyp: Book section
Språk:English
Publicerad: De Gruyter 2021
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Sammanfattning:In this paper I revisit recent claims that Pāṇini’s generative grammar has fully context-sensitive power. I show that in fact Pāṇini assumed acyclicity as a constraint on rule application, limiting the power of his superficially context-sensitive formalism in a way entirely parallel to much work in modern phonology.